Afternoon tea

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My boyfriend took me to the new Hotel Café Royal for Afternoon tea this weekend. Hotel Café Royal is a 5 star hotel next to Piccadilly station, in the middle of London, and recently refurbished. It used to not be a great hotel, but it closed in 2008, refurbished and re-opened in December 2012. I walk past it frequently, but had never been in there and actually did not know it existed.

Royal Café Hotel is now a beautiful hotel, beautifully redecorated, with rooms in different styles. The lobby and reception seem modern, but the Oscar Wilde room, where we had our afternoon tea, was made up in an old school style with mirrors and paintings and bold golden frames. It is a beautiful room and there are so many things you can look at. There was also a man playing the piano on one side of the room, creating that extra special atmosphere.

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